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> Tony was an early fan of the magic/comedy team Penn and Teller. A friend and colleague attended a show and hung out afterward to ask the duo to sign a photo f
by kilpikaarna 3mo ago
> Tony was an early fan of the magic/comedy team Penn and Teller. A friend and colleague attended a show and hung out afterward to ask the duo to sign a photo for his friend Tony. “He was on the team that did the red and green squiggles in Word.”
That’s some heavy duty corpo-brain to be introducing your friend with ”He was on the team that did X”.
- nikanj 3mo agoWould it also be corpo brain to say ”He was the guy that landed on the moon”? That was Neil’s job, after all.
- Dibby053 3mo agoI think everybody likes to be part of something big. I would definitely be proud of having worked on something so well-known. This feature is from a different time, though. The people working at big tech these days clearly don't care as much about the output of the stuff they work on.
- InsideOutSanta 3mo agoIf you know somebody from work, and that person built something most people on earth have seen and can identify, that seems a fine way of introducing that person.
- praash 3mo ago"Heavy-duty" calls for exaggerated impact and prestige. "Tony pioneered the famous red-and-green squiggles of Microsoft Word, empowering millions of users with a spell-checking revolution."